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spaghoni t1_j2bv42p wrote

When I was a kid, I thought we'd be drinking and irrigating with desalinated ocean water by now. Maybe no one has figured out the best way to profit from it yet although I understand that Isreal has been using desalinated water for a couple of decades.

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granth1993 t1_j2bwd3d wrote

So I’m an engineer for a cruise line that uses desalination from Reverse Osmosis, the issue with doing it on a massive scale is the amount of brine waste it produces. It’s extremely concentrated brine (nasty salt water sludge byproducts). We would have to figure out how to dispose of huge quantities without damaging the ecosystems.

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Sum_Dum_User t1_j2bzd09 wrote

Likely we would end up with entire lakes of "dead" water that would be a future problem.

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imperiusdamian t1_j2c7mcd wrote

Dump it in the Dead Sea. There's nothing living there anyway.

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granth1993 t1_j2d2xce wrote

Cost of transportation and emissions from the vehicles to get it there would be massive.

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